Overview

• CEO Dario Amodei met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi to discuss India’s role in responsible AI and near-term deployment priorities.
• The company confirmed a Bengaluru office scheduled for early 2026 that will hire local teams and serve as its second Indo-Pacific site after Tokyo.
• Anthropic says India is the second-largest market for Claude, with disproportionately high developer and technical use, and reports Claude Code usage up fivefold since June.
• The India strategy includes pilots across education, healthcare and agriculture in collaboration with businesses, nonprofits and startups, with more details to come.
• Anthropic is expanding Claude’s Indic language support, promising enhanced Hindi performance and training across languages including Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu.